> : Thank you for interrupting. Now do me a favor.
> : Turn around, away from the view of the screen...Ok
> : That OUT there is REALITY. You can turn back now.
> : This IN HERE is FANTASY.
> : Please don't get the two confused again.
> : I'm glad you have purged your conscience and do
> : understand the fringe logic that made you post up
> : your note, but you are WAY off base to be interjecting
> : that kind of issue into a "rec.auto.SIMULATORS" forum.
> : Sorry, to be appearing to be doubly insensitive, but
> : what my ***agers were doing was play, when we were
> : watching the crashes on replay was play, what all of us
> : do here and comment on is play.
> : It serves NO useful purpose to try to make it more than
> : that, none whatsoever.
> : My purpose was to comment on the graphics rendition of
> : that part of the sport that does in fact occur and therefore
> : would be appropiate for a "serious" attempt at simulation,
> : but, once again, it is clean, sanitary, SAFE, and it is
> : PLAY.
> : I made NO connection to any event in the real world in
> : any of my posts here, nor do I plan to in the future.
> : This is a place where, thankfully, we can leave that
> : OUT THERE.
> : Sincerly,
> : JEB
> I agree with the majority of what you're saying Jeb. I suppose I should
> have stated more clearly that it was "how I read what you were saying"
> that I had difficulty with. Yes I do realize that this is a game, a
> fantasy, a work of imagination. But it is a simulation not an arcade
> game. I don't see why the subject of reprecutions of crashes does not
> have a place in r.a.sims (although I'm not about to dwell on the subject
> being implemented into sims at all). If it weren't for programers who
> looked to the real world for details we'd all just have SVGA versions of
> Atari Racer and the like.
> Again, I did not miss your intention. You are one of the very few on the
> contenent to have the game, and you are letting us all know your
> impressions of it. For that, I thank you. You were describing how the
> game handled crashes graphicly. What I wanted to address was the manner
> how it came off. I appologize if it sounded like I was flaming you, I was
> not. If you think I was, well, then turn around away from your screen and
> go out into the real world...you've been spending too much time in
> r.a.sims and all the flames are clouding your vision :)
> __o
> _-\<,_ Cosmo Potapoff
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I too was not trying to flame.
I was, as stated, trying to release us all from any implication that
we should consider the "real" when we are discussing the "fantastic".
I'm sure you would agree that this sort of sentiment, sincerly held,
and articulately expressed, would, nonetheless, have a great CHILLING
effect, if we took it too greatly into consideration. My note was
meant to "sober" the sober, if you take my meaning.
I too, like us all, was shocked and saddened by the tragic event in
the race to which you referred. I expressed that to my fellows as
we watched the replay. That was in the venue of the "regular" life
as it were, but here, I think we can both agree is not the proper
place, for that standard to be held, again, consider the effect of
one having to be constantly considering how his or her post would
reflect in "reality". It would be an impossible and very uncomfortable
task, indeed. My point is simply let's not call ourselves to that
expectation in a forum devoted to the "fantasy" of simulating the
real...let's just keep the "Walter Mitty" factor in play.
Thanks again for your measured and thoughtful response.
Again, Sincerly,
JEB in Vegas
PS. Enjoy the graphics..."too" good at simulating at times...perhaps.
